Shooting a WWII German 50mm Light Mortar (L.Gr.W.36)
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The standard German light mortar in World War Two was the model 1936 5cm Leichter Granatwerfer. It was a very precise (Germanic, one might say) machine, and a bubble lever for careful aiming, and it threw a roughly 2 pound projectile out to a maximum range of 550 meters. Today I have the chance to do some shooting with one, using original (demilled) projectiles and 1939-dated propellant charges. Should be fun!
You can see my full video on the history and use of this mortar here:
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Gotta love the ploop sound.
why it makes so little noise compared to a small calibre making alot of noise.
that mortar barrel has more volume than the barrel of a normal rifle, so the gasses have more time/space to expand, slow and cool, which makes it less noisy
I was expecting it to be much louder. I guess the relatively large barrel acts sorta like the expansion chamber on a suppressor. And possibly the launching charge burns slightly slower than standard ammunition?
It is pretty stealthy. A lot less bang than I'd expect.
The projectile is a lot slower than the speed of sound. Bullets breaking the sound barrier is a lot of the noise. Plus what the others said, big tube for little charge.
Owner is a great guy for just letting you show it off.
Well it's gonna draw interest and he's gonna make bank, so...
Looks like you could reload the charges. Looks more fun than my potato gun.
@@markcoveryourassets you have given me the idea of a mortar that uses potatoes as ammunition.
Many thanks to the owner. Very interesting! ( apologies to Werner Klempere. Col Klink)
@@markcoveryourassetsYou can change them, Ian talks about it
Ian's proposal on golf courses being converted to mortar ranges makes me hope he runs for national office one day.
I, too, will vote for anything that stops golf
I always said, that any golf course is a wasted rifle range or airfield
"Aim for the bunkers!" - recreational mortar team
Do we tell the golfers?
@@phlodel if it's on marilago ...no....
Getting hands-on with original gear and 1939 propellant charges must have been an experience of a lifetime
You'd be surprised what kind of stuff some guy in the 1970s bought a shipping container of
@@Frankensteins_Highboy I would not as I know some of those guys. Great guys, some would say the best.
@@Nomed38 I know a gentleman (or three to be exact) that brought German half tracks over to the US in peices.
And for those interested, there is a flak 38 for sale in Illinois rn
@@Frankensteins_Highboyhow much?😊
@@sayhitomychopper9594 sold
"Recreational mortar range" is a delightfully American turn of phrase...
My doctor advised more activity , this sounds like just the thing to get me out ... where do i purchase a recreational mortar ?
@orsonincharge4879 Apparently at Morphy's auction house...
@@orsonincharge4879 If you find out where to get one for cheap let me know! Looks like a damn good time to me, haha!!
And a 10000% better use for golf courses.
Sometimes his genius is frightening 😁
Sacrificing a few original charges to get a live fire demonstration of exactly the performance of a German ww2 mortar on HD video for millions of people to see is well worth it imo. Great job.
What use is a powder charge cylinder with original powder inside on some shelf?
You can always keep pictures to look at thing, but you can't see a picture perform in action.
"Recreational mortar range" Well, who knew disk "golf" would be popular?
Ok but a competitive mortar game of some sort would be really interesting.
@@tricksterjoy9740 Paint grenades like Oddball did with his Sherman 75 mm gun ?
Work out a deal with the builders of a new golf course to generate sand traps, lakes valleys. See also Project Plowshare
He said that to make up for instinctively using the metric system :D
people who can't catch a Frisbee?
BLOOP!
I took my 81mm mortar course in 1986. I've been waiting to hear the bloop for decades
I've fired 81mm mortar in the Army. You don't hear a bloop sound, you hear a big
a$$ bang. The recoil moved the suspension of an M125 mortar carrier. We were firing charge 6 at the time.
@chrisclark5204 It's not like I took my mortar course at the damn community center. Try and keep up. Yeah. Bigass bang. We fired on the ground. I don't recall what charge, it was the 'eighties.
We may have been on the square at the same time. Did 4 duece 86 to 93.
@taylorjeffl Close. I did my mortar course in 1985 or 1986 and left the regiment in1987.
Why do I remember a bloop that didn't happen? He'll if I know.
Such a glorious sound.
I would be willing to host a mortar competition on a golf course.
‘Links Brutality’
I’ll show myself out!
Mortars fired on golf courses, that would give a new meaning for the term hole in one =)
LMAO good one Sir.
And don't tell the golfers there is also a recreational mortar competition being held simultaneously!
This is a mortar that actually does go ploop. The 60mm is the smallest mortar the US military uses. I was 11C for 8 years in the 3rd and 1st infantry divisions. Even the 60 doesn't make a ploop sound. It has barrel ring after you drop a round but it is a loud pow. 81 is even louder.
The 4.2 inch mortar -Four-deuce- shooting max charge illumination is unbelievably loud and can leave you feeling a bit stunned after you fire the round. 4.2" Mortar assistant gunners (the guy who puts the round in the tube) sometimes eschew earplugs so they can hear the fire commands better. They'll jam their fingers in their ears real tight. It works just as good as earplugs... if you get your fingers in there. A 4.2" mortar's barrel is rifled- just like a deer rifle. The HE round has little extrusions that match up with the lands and grooves inside the mortar. That means the round rotates as it goes down because it's indexed into the rifling precisely. You have over a second with an HE round before the round hits the firing pin at the bottom of the tube- so, plenty of time to get fingers in ears.
However, the Illumination round has no little extrusions. It is smooth. You don't index it into the lands and grooves- the round just drops straight down to the firing pin. So... if you've been firing HE all day long, and you get used to a certain pace of putting your fingers in your ears, and then you decide to go earplugless for your night firing, it's important to remember that you have MUCH LESS TIME before the explosion of the propellent. And the thing is, you have your helmet on. So, you can't just jam your fingers straight in your ears- you have to go up under the edge of the helmet first. Like, I said, with HE, not a big deal. You have over a second. But with Illum... less than a quarter second. This is how I got my hearing damaged, and the point of the story isn't to talk about my ears, but about HOW FREAKING LOUD a 4.2 inch mortar shooting max charge Illumination is. It happened to me one time. One single time that I did not manage to get my fingers in my ears. Dude. It felt like a spike being driven through my head. I couldn't hear properly for hours after that. And my ears rang the entire time. This was the 90s, just before the 120mm was introduced. The 4.2" was the loudest weapon in a mechanized infantry battalion. Louder than a tank. No ploop sound.
I really enjoyed this video, Ian. Made me nostalgic.
Great story - how accurate was the 4.2" with that rifled barrel?
If you let your head be in front of the barrell exit, 80mm and 120mm really feels like someone kicks on your head when firing longer distances. With small loads they really are ”bloop”.
That was a detailed and interesting comment. Learned something new! Thanks.
My ears haven’t stopped ringing after getting the command to fire the fpf before I could get my ear plugs in
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Recreational mortars sounds like something worth paying green fees for
Brown fees
My late father paid green fees at Pebble Beach,circa 2005. Long forgotten the amount,but yes indeed. With cost of his clubs,the average golfers investment is huge. Much better concept here.
Replay song football fields what recreational motor feels
The golf course I grew up playing golf on with my dad got turned into a nursing home. I bet there are plenty of elderly vets who would love this idea. Mortar golf sounds awesome.
Recreational Mortar Ranges... Capital idea!!! I'm a former 'Mortar Forker'... US 81mm M29A1 Mortar... though I've fired both the M19 and M224 60mm mortar and the M252 81mm and 107mm (Four Deuce) mortars. I loved every minute of every live fire.
Scale mortars to some unusual caliber like 42.69mm (so there would be no way to use actual shells), use 100% inert shells, and shotgun shell blanks with different loads for range variation, and a goal is to get as higher score as possible with limited shots per target, which is a round plane of concentric circles, with different point value to add to the score, center circle giving the most points; i.e. bullseye target... Yeah, I can see it as a competitive sport like golf.
I was an FO, best job I ever had. A couple of us were dropped off with a 5 gal water can and a case of C's, no brass or anyone else around, E-5 or E-6 in charge. We would kick back, dial in some targets, and have our own fireworks show.
@@IrishAmerican17 My initial assignment was as FDC... I learned to plot before I learned to gun. I went to IMPC in 1987 and got to play with all the good stuff. My section was 81mm, but at IMPC I got to play with both 60mm, both 81mm and the 4.2 inch mortars. I also got to play with the M23 Mortar Ballistic Computer just as they were getting ready to field it. I found that I could plot on the board faster than others could manipulate the MBC. IMPC also taught us FO procedures too...
Spent some quality time with a M224 60mm mortar at the range. We were using Vietnam era HE rounds so 1.5KM of range. We were aiming at this small tree and could not hit it. Broke out the WP and burned down a couple acres. Tree is still standing. Went to the FO of the NG 155 Battery that was behind us and laughing at us. Hey can you do something about that tree? He called in a Danger close fire for effect mission and the impact area exploded in front of us. When the dust cleared that tree was still standing.
@@rjjablo I do WWII Living History and some friends have a WWII M2 60 mm mortar so I still get to practice my gunnery skills from time to time. It surprises them that I walk up, start manipulating the mortar and telling them how it operates. Most just own one and are like, Hey look a mortar but have no idea how to set up and shoot one
This is the first time I have seen a demonstration of a light mortar. Kudos and thanks for the demo. It does look like fun.
I've videos of the Japanese "Knee Mortar" being fired.
Back when I was in MCJROTC I watched a demonstration of the US 60mm Mortar as used by the USMC. I was even gifted an empty ammo can after the demonstration; I use it for personal documents and I even took it to West Germany when I was stationed at Fliegerhorst.
I know a guy who has a GI 60mm mortar, an he use to bring it out to the machine gun shoots we had there, very cool.
@@mpetersen6 upload them
It's a god-damned tube where you can put explosives and press one lever to make them fly
What an invention, 10/10
As a former M224 gunner in the 101st Airborne, this is one of my favorite topics you’ve covered and I would love to have one of these in my collection. I need one….
You definitely have much better toys than the rest of us. I love the characteristic "bloop" of a round leaving the tube.
BLuPe
I always thought that the sound was just for the movies. Very surprised that it's the exact same.
Yes, baseplates sets after a few shots. But even with our vehicle mounted 81mm mortars we had to check the level constantly.
also if you had firing tables you would know the approximate time of flight.
We had an assistant gunner who could get 10 rounds in the air before the first impacted at 2500 meters.
I've been a collector since the late 70's and a WW2 re-enactor for over 30 years. You have fired my favorite gun ( FG-42 ) and now my favorite mortar. You are one lucky guy!!
Thanx for showing us this piece of hostory, never seen a WWII Mortar in action, my Grandpa was served in WWII, he faught at France, Belgium and Russia, and came home after 6 years of Russian prisoner of war, he died of cancer in 2004...he was the best Grandpa i could have !
Greets from Germany !
Your grandpa was Truly a great man . As was my great grandad . Even though I'm English I have so much respect for my German cousins. My family tree and name dates back to Anglo saxons.
@Stuballs Thx for your nice words, i Wish you all the best for your and your Family...
Greets from Germany
Powder charges aren't getting any younger.
It shouldn't be a problem for an experienced reloader.
Probably want a slower shotgun powder, e.g. “Blue Dot” or slower.
@@dennisyoung4631 Fill 'er up with Trail Boss
Mortar collections are a real thing. It wouldn't surprise me if there aren't folks who reload mortar charges.
@@panfriedmarmot most of my reloading experience dates from about thirty years ago, and I think that one came out a bit more recently. Did it? What’s its burning rate? Fast? Slow? In between?
As a German, i can't thank you enough for this Video!
Also absolutely love whenever you point out everything that is particularly "German", because you're 100% right haha.
Can't wait to visit Arizona and other Southern States sometime!
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Gruß zurück ausm Sauerland (fast auch Alpen) 😃
Hallo, Grüße zurück aus dem schönen Sachsen, Leipzig :)
Im Gegensatz zu euren schönen Bergen grüße ich von einer Stadt, die auf Sumpf gebaut wurde 😂
You can tell he's used to firing mortars with fixed firing pins with how he flinches back after dropping in the mortar. Good ol' muscle memory.
I took as a wise precaution in case it dropped and the primer detonated unexpectedly.
@@paulketchupwitheverything767 "Better safe than sorry when it comes to my fingers being in the way of the angry ball."
@@paulketchupwitheverything767 Probably a combination of both
This would be a new twist on lawn darts. Good job.
a pneumatic version with the same ballistics could be cheap enough to be a toy if someone wanted to make and market it
@noah4822 It would be fun but I'm sure you would get the stink eye from the local cops
@@1boortzfan i can't think of anything fun that doesn't come with that side effect lol
@noah4822 Ain't that the truth
“… we’ll see where this one goes…”
Mortar wisdom reads: if you couldn’t see where it landed, you’ll read about it in the newspaper.
If the explosive charge intact, you will definitely see where it landed…
@@BlackCat-tc2tveventually.
If you can't read the newspaper...the angle was not quite right.
Thank you, Ian, for entertaining and informing us all. It’s always nice to know there’s a super smart dude willing to teach me about guns when I’m having a tough time.
Imagine Ian using this in a backup gun match.
Not really a "back up gun" though, however the range officers at the range Ian goes to, probably wouldn't bat an eyelid, if he DID turn up with this at a bug match! It's not really the strangest thing they've seen from him, lol
Huh. Any one can get the spinner over with a rifle. But can you do it with a mortar....? 😂
Nah, he doesn't do 'from the hip'!
@djd8305 i think we can get a red dot and stock on that....... and a holster!!!!
@@leewilkinson6372 What, no bayonet?
The weight is actually way off without HE charge. Fill it with wax or something to imitate the original weight, making sure it is evenly distributed to avoid disbalance.
Light empty shell means wind affects it much more than it is supposed to. The powder on the other hand is likely alright because it can only spoil due to moisture, and then it would not ignite.
You also weren't that great with centering the bubble...
eso e pensado yo si el proyectil esta vacio como el cerebro de biden pues eso ,, que no aciertas
@@surprisereptilian4778That was why the NZ Army mortar teams consistently beat the Yank and Aussie mortar teams in competitions with the 81mm mortar, during the ‘80s and ‘90s. They took the extra few seconds to get the sight bubble in the centre!
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francophile. I don't think Ian speaks french.
@@Nukle0n He is learning it.
@@Taistelukalkkuna So are millions of people, none of them will ever finish learning it - it's an inorganic language.
@@tipi5586it has no carbon?
@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official French is a silicon based lifeform.
I enjoy when you release a less serious video. This was just fun
I had the great opportunity of talking to a WWII combat veteran, at the nursing home where my grandparents were. You could still here the fear in his voice, 60+ years later, when he said "Jerry could drop a mortar down your shirt collar."
I love that bloop sound.
Not quite a ploop or a queef, only better - YOU can smell it, but SHE can't hear it!
The beauty of a motar is its ability to drop rounds at a very high angle at close ranges. Those artillery guys saved my ass at Happy Valley in Vietnam where nobody was happy!! Oh and sometimes they just drift off Target, so keep your heads down because incoming fire has the right away!!
You were never in Vietnam.
And friendly fire, isn't ...
Mortars saved me in World War I!
@@printingwithpeek4897 Were YOU there peckerwood?? I was!! Maybe you should study history and little bit more keyboard warrior!!
@@Pavia1525 Nice try ass wipe!!
Thank you Ian and Jordan ‘the Light Mortar Champion’😁! Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
A friend of mine of ahold of one of the US Cold War pneumatic subcaliber mortar adaptors. 1" runds, and a variety of sleeves (for 60mm, 81mm, and 4.2" tubes) and a pneumatic valve at rhe bottom.
Pretty cool - the valve arrangement would be set for the appropriate "caliber" youre trying to simulate, and the round would be propelled at about a 1:36 range reduction (so, every inch equals a full yard).
He made up a tube, baseplate, and T&E bipod that would accept the kit (but wasnt an NFA DD).
We had a BLAST one afternoon, thunking rounds down his 100 yard driveway at 1:36 scale targets of AFVs, troops, and small buildings.
What a throwback for me this morning. It's 3 decades since I last watched someone adjust fire for a mortar team. I was in a FIST for the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment based at Ft Bliss TX. We had 4.2 inch mortar teams on the M113 bodies. Yes Firing for Effect would be fun with that little mortar tube though it would be easier to do a FFE with more than 1 tube. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Nice! I would love to see more videos about artillery. Your videos about the light infantry gun and the anti-tank gun are some of my favourites from the channel.
Something to consider in combat mortars' were used by the Heer in squad level teams: with commander providing both machine gun fire protection & direction of battery fire w/optical sights there were also 1 or more support rifles who also provided carrying/loading for the mortar rounds from arsenal to fire positions.
Good gunner would drop all 10 rounds from one canister rapidly one after another while the commander corrected his fire that system allowed for honing in on enemy positions.
si pero luego llegaban los sovieticos y les llovian morteros de 120 mm con una carga esplosiva muy respetable que alomejor con el primer disparo antes corregir el tiro unos metros para acerta de pleno por pura potencia ya eliminabas escoria nazi
RECREATIONAL MORTAR SPORT! Removing ALL GOLF COURSES for mortar practice, is an EXCELLENT IDEA!
Eh, have them as dual use, perfectly fine to do a couple times a year when they are going to fix the glass and holes anyway afterwards. :)
One thing is you gotta get your entrenching tool and dig that square for the baseplate so it doesn't move between rounds.
Yea, it really shook every shot.
Love the guys grovelling on the ground for the blast.
I'm old enough to have used the UK 2 inch mortar.
Kneel down, dig the spade in the ground and put your boot behind it.
Adjust range by moving your arm - it was literally just a tube with a white line up it for aim.
Drop a round.
Pull the bit of string on the firing lever.
Your face was a good 18 inches above the barrel!
how accurate was it? at least from your experience
@@czwarty7878 By the time I used it, 1980ish, it was only used for smoke - so pinpoint accuracy wasn't an issue.
That said the guys that liked it, so were prepared to carry it, were pretty good after a ranging shot.
Ehhh probably better for long term health and safety. The people I know that had roles in artillery all have hearing loss, and surprisingly small shocks to the head can cause CTE over time. Considering just how much time Ian spends on ranges doing stuff like this, every little bit is important, I would think.
@@Aaron-ne4kr Ear defenders every time is a MUST just for small arms.
Never had much to do with artillery, but I learnt my lesson doing infantry/tank fire control , stood on engine decking talking down the grunt phone. When the 120 went off the concussion literally slapped you hard in the nuts. Made sure to stand sideways after that!
We had very similar 52mm mortars in the IDF as late as the early 2000s, except that they were fired by twisting a handle - very similar to opening/closing a water tap.
Finally, we have another use next to alligator reserves for golf courses.
Thank you, Ian! Very cool to see this in action
I used to be our platoon mortar operator back in the day, the old British 51mm mortar. We only got to live fire once a year, and mainly used illumination rounds during night shoots etc, but it was great fun. The 51mm mortar didn't have a static baseplate like that - you just held it in place, set the windage with a white stripe painted up the barrel, and range was set is a similar fashion to this - you set the range on a gauge, then used a spirit level to elevate the barrel manually. I could get five rounds in the air consistently, and occasionally six if I really pushed it. The funny part was, if the ground was hard, the mortar would bounce up in the air with each shot, and on soft ground it would bury itself 🙂
Saw some uksf guys using something similar at the he Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan. SBS, I think. Video of it in YT👍
Got to fire the 51mm once during a range day in Iraq. Really pissed off the Sargent running the range I was the first one up only got to fire one round but dropped it right in the middle of the cluster of fig11 and 12 targets he'd set up knocking half of them over. It was probably pure dumb luck but I'm always gonna claim to be an expert with that weapon.
You make perfect sense, grin. It happens I hate the game of Golf and would love to do the mortar thing.
The mortar rounds will be lighter due to the lack of HE weight.
The gunpowder is also aged and so the range would need recalibration
I wonder if that would also make more vulnerable to movement by wind?
But the inconsistency though
yeah I wonder if that adds to the problem. IIRC the explosive filler was not very heavy in these rounds (0.2kg) but it was still like ~20% of weight
@@888Longball Yeah it would. A heavier object has more inertia. Wind is still going to impact a light mortar quite a lot though. A quick google search shows the total weight of those mortar bombs is 4.9 lbs with 2 lbs being explosive. So they're pretty much exactly 60% of their original weight.
Very cool. Never thought morters.were so technically advanced but that's what makes this channel. History!
It would be really cool to 3d print some different tips for those with a whistle on it.
And fill with tannerite .
@@richarddixon7276 If you fill it with Tannerite, it'll go off when it's fired 😅
Mortar rounds fly "silently" through the air as they are not spinning as artillery shells do.
I'm a former Bravo but I got to play with the Charlie's and this is just delightful!
Safer than golfing and better for the environment.
Depends if your partner is channelling his inner Gerald Ford.
I'd prefer This to golfing ANY Day!!! 🤠👍
Lets invent Mortar Golf...
Ah Ian, you always have something interesting and very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Now I know what I want for Christmas
A kiss from Ian?
We had toy mortars back in the early to mid 60s. They were spring loaded if I recall. You can actually still buy them from Temu and some other places.
Toy grenades as well that used caps.
The term you're looking for is drop fire and lever fire. Aside from that, this my favorite video of yours in the 10+ years over been watching your stuff. I've added this to my christmas wish list.❤😂
ian really do be living the life. does what he loves for a living and gets to play with stuff like this
My dad fought in France and Germany during WW2. He said some German mortarmen were very good with their mortars. In fact, his team was sent out to find a mortar team that was giving his unit h**l. They found their position and took out three of them. But the last one spotted my dad and grabbed the mortar tube, quickly turned it towards him, hand-held the tube to aim it, and dropped in a mortar round just as my dad fired and dispatched him. Then my dad had a bad feeling, looked up, and saw the mortar round coming down right on top of him. He hit the dirt, but it still took him out of action. Its shrapnel peppered his arms and shoulders and took out his left eye.
buddy got a trickshot as a send off. that's crazy
That's some Rambo stuff... Sad to hear your dad got hurt, but glad he made it home.
I had never seen a mortar like this fired in real time, only in the movies. Thank you for this great demonstration.
Now that is just too cool. Thank you for bringing this to us. And thank you to the owner for letting you show us this.
I love that mortar - German design and craftsmanship - thanks for this video! It brought back memories of watching 81 mm mortars being fired on the range.
Even the Techpriests from Mars think it's overengineered.
That has got to be the Best suggestion I have ever heard for a Golf course 😊😊
Man I love this! So frickin' cool! I would definitely play mortar golf!
What a cool 😎 life Ian has Firing a WWII German Mortar all in a days work 😊
Im a retired US Army 11C. When i got home from Iraq i bought an 8.0cm Granatewerfer 34. I always tried to get my hands on 5.0. The 5.0 is typical German over engineered for what it is. The Gr.W 34 is on par with all the other Brandt/Stokes designs.
Sitting here chuckling. Was 11C/FO when I was young, but got tired of humping. I'm a retired tanker (thinking about your hobby).
@IrishAmerican17 13F in light units carried the Heaviest Rucks, then us, then the Machine Gunners everybody else can STFU they don't know what "Heavy" is.
Why overengineered? For me, as a layman, the 5cm mortar looks incredible efficient and effective for what they are designed for. Stability, easy to handle (water bubble/range indicator) & carry, small profile. Perfect, or not?
@@Peter-vf3dl everybody else came up with a Baseplate, Tube and a Bipod. The Germans designed something far heavier and more complicated requiring more machining and costing far more. Does it work well? Yeah it's pretty good but not much better than a standard rifle grenade which is 1/20th the cost to produce. There is a reason the Germans stopped production the overall costs and the low down range effects of the 5.0cm round made them not worth it.
I love how the ammo box has the ubiquitous "Bügelverschluß" similar to that found on a beer bottle, allowing the soldier to quickly respond to an attack on a warm russian summer night without having to readjust the brain from "plopping" open a cold one to setting up the mortar. Much love from Germany!
Well, that was unexpected! Something that I would never have thought would be said, "recreational mortar range" .Thank you!
You were really having fun there. Nice to see you enjoying yourself!
I definitely see a ton of potential in this sort of mortar for recreational "shooting". That removable nosecone on the projectiles has so much potential for 3d printed replacements since they'll be damaged by impacts and the space that contained the explosive charge could surely hold an airtag or other tracking device to make retrieval easier, plus room for maybe some sort of chalk or even small bit of impact explosive in the nosecone to make impacts more obvious. And the removable powder charge shotgun shell looking thing could surely be reloaded, or maybe you could find some sort of rimmed brass rifle cartridge that fits close enough that would last longer than the 100 year old plastic of the originals for reloading. Ian's mortar golf course idea could legitimately hold weight imo.
I think commando mortars would be really good for this sort of thing, since they're also light mortars (as in, carried by an single infantryman or two) something like the French LGI F1 or Austrian M6 mortar with all the changes made to the mortar shells you suggested would a cool if unusual way to have fun at the range.
That looked like a BLAST!!! So much fun!
1:11 cant believe it is the real sound
I skipped back 5 times 😂😂😂
There's a reason the M203 under barrel grenade launcher is called a "bloop tube." That's what they sound like.
@@jeromethiel4323The Vietnam guys called the M79 a blooker. I believe the term was universally used.
@@paulmanson253 "Frau Blooker!"
@@paulmanson253 I got to shoot an M79 when I was in the navy . BLOOP . My two ships had M14 rifles in the armory , so no M203s for us . A mortar set in solid earth is useless on the deck of a vessel at sea or rocking on the tides in port . But a good deck sailor who has gained his Sea Legs can probably hit a small boat with a blooper within 200 yards with a blooper .
This assembly of a WW2 German mortar is way easier than even the simplest IKEA furniture assembly. It’s so streamlined and slick - incredible!
Golf courses against recreational mortar ranges?
You got my signature on the second one.
Ian really has every mans dream job, such an awesome video man.
Remember everyone, children lack the upper body strength to carry small arms and are too small for artillery, but they are the perfect size for crew served weapons such as light mortars.
That's not true
@@GaiusCaligula234I don’t think the truth is the point. At least for this.
@@GaiusCaligula234 Whoosh.
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It also fosters a sense of team work and cooperation. Admirable traits to instill in America's youth.
I know a buddy who has a ‘50s compressed air trainer for 60 and 81/82mm mortars, it uses 25mm subprojectiles, so much fun.
Awesome video like always. Dr. Ian my country continues to use that!!!
Wow, they really do sound like that. I always assumed that "ploonk" noise was a movie thing. What a deeply satisfying sound.
Love that "thunk" sound of the mortar
That's adorable. Former 4.2" crewman. Beautiful workmanship, way fancier than what's needed but nice.
1000% behind recreational mortar ranges!
I thought about this on golf courses a long time ago , I still love the idea ! This would be as challenging as shooting a 22 RF at 200 yards .
I whole new meaning for "Hole In One"
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 Only way you would ever catch me on a Golf course .
5:46 that thunk made me laugh more than I needed to 😂
"Maximum giggle factor"
A late friend of mine was in the Duke of Wellinigtons Regiment during WW2 . He told me that the Middlesex Regiment did the heavy machine guns and the Northumberland Fusiliers did the mortars. During training, the mortor crews could put up 4 bombs per crew at one time, such was the hang time. By adjusting the weapon, they could blanket an area very quickly.
"This is Granatwerfer 36. It werfers 36 granatas."
Granaten
*Werfs Granaten
Grenadethrower sounds so different?
@@MosoKaiser *wirft Granaten
**wirft Granaten
Greetings from Germany 😛
Playing golf on a course simultaneously being used as a dummy mortar range would certainly add unparalleled excitement as well as speed up time spent on a round of 9 or 18 holes in and otherwise slow game. "The match leader Smith got a double eagle on the 12th, but then took a dummy mortar round strike to the shoulder on the 15th..... and that, as they say, is gonna leave a mark." 🤣 Excellent and refreshing video, Ian. Thank you for making this. 👍
As far as I know, if you want to shoot the mortar very precisely, you have to make an adjustment after you throw the grenade into the barrel. This little shock can mess up your gun's pre-setting.
I would of thought aim adjust after leveling would of been more accurate as well. I really want one.
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Maybe they didn't compensate for the missing weight of the explosive charge in the round too. That can affect the range quite some.
looked like unpredictable gusts of desert wind to me, otherwise they would have had no issues walking the shots in
Once tried to shoot a bowling ball mortar at 100yards. Wind gust dropped it 5 yards from the tube
I love it. There are too many unused outdoor spaces like golf courses. And that little mortar is SO cute! I want one too!
Just yesterday on the range I accidentally came across a 7,62x25 TT case that was made in 1949. And I thought "wow, that's old".
And here you are using charges from 1939
*This is the best educational channel EVER*
that sound is like no other, :) great Audio guys!
To see this thing in action is just amazing
Gun Jesus lobbing grenades out to 300m with the cutest mortar I've ever seen 😆👌🏾.
Ian, you REALLY love what you do, and that makes US love it, too !
Waiting on the video on the British 2” mortar to complete the ww2 infantry mortar series. So many of the videos on here about it are about replicas or blank firing reenactment ones.
OMG that thing makes the most pleasing sound when fired lol.
6:10 Whatever is living in that burrow behind Ian is probably not amused that someone is dropping mortars on their home. 😁
Ian is an amazing person he's funny, entertaining and educational
Oh great guntubers are getting into field artillery. Just don't let Brendon, Scott, or Matt near this thing.
"My 75mm Exploded"
This mortar content is awesome! Would love to see more!
We should try the Soviet 37 mm mortar-shovel from 1940.
very nice By 1941, the Granatwerfer 36 was seen as too complex for its intended role. It fired too light a shell and had too short of a range. It was used as a platoon mortar and operated by a 3-man team. Production was terminated in 1941. By 1942, it had been gradually withdrawn from front line service. However, it remained in use with second-line and garrison units until the end of the Second World War in 1945. it was replace by the 8 cm Granatwerfer 42
Would be fun to mount a GoPro on one of the mortar rounds for next time...Newer GoPros are under 50mm in size and have accelerometers and GPS recording built in, would make for some cool footage.
Several of the hardware bits on that mortar look really similar to some of the castings on the Lafette mount for the MG34/42. I bet the white paint line on the tube and inside the bubble level was originally luminous for use at night, probably why the bubble level has such a large protector cap. Very cool.
Corridor Digital actually did that, albeit with a potato gun rather than an actual mortar, but your right, some pretty cool footage
@@highlandoutsider thanks, will check that out
Holy shit talk about way out of left field😍 As a former Mortarman myself (81mm) this really tickles me in the right places😁😁😁
Nice little mortar, very modular.
I like the idea of turning golf courses into mortar golf. You just use the mortars for drivers and something like a golf ball rifle for shorter shots.
Blunderbuss?